Exploring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Adolescents in the Gaza Strip (Arabic)

Author(s)
Hamad, S., Abu Hamra, E., Diab, R., Abu Hamad, B., Jones, N. and Małachowska, A.
Publication language
Arabic
Pages
12pp
Date published
04 Jun 2020
Publisher
GAGE - Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence
Type
Plans, policy and strategy
Keywords
Children & youth, COVID-19, Epidemics & pandemics, Impact assessment, Internal Displacement, Livelihoods, Poverty
Countries
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Organisations
ODI

In response to growing calls to ensure that national and international responses to the covid-19 situation are inclusive of all social groups, including refugee communities, and context-tailored, this policy brief draws on virtual qualitative interviews with vulnerable young people in Gaza to better understand the compounded effects of the pandemic and the pre-existing economic and political crisis facing the country. It is part of a cross-country series designed to share emerging findings in real time from qualitative interviews with adolescents in the context of covid-19. The young people involved are part of the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme’s longitudinal research in the Middle East, East Africa and South Asia. More specifically, this brief draws on data from 48 telephone conversations with vulnerable 11–19-year-old Palestinian adolescent boys and girls, including married girls and adolescents with disabilities, held in April and May 2020.

Authors: 
Hamad, S., Abu Hamra, E., Diab, R., Abu Hamad, B., Jones, N. and Małachowska, A.